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title: "195 Pretext Quotes by 162 authors"
description: "Browse 195 Pretext quotes by 162 authors. Discover the best Pretext sayings and thoughts."
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> [Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlo-goldoni/pretexts-are-not-wanting-when-one-wishes-to-use-them/)

[Carlo Goldoni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlo-goldoni/)

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> [He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/publilius-syrus/he-who-wishes-to-injure-another-will-soon-find-a-pretext/)

[Publilius Syrus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/publilius-syrus/)

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> [To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/to-the-wicked-everything-serves-as-pretext/)

[Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/)

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> [The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-enemy-is-only-a-pretext-to-test-our-strength/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aesop/the-tyrant-will-always-find-a-pretext-for-his-tyranny/)

[Aesop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aesop/)

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> [Text without context is pretext.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-martin/text-without-context-is-pretext/)

[Walter Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-martin/)

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> [“There are only do and don’t; can or can’t is just an excuse.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-f-moonzajer/there-are-only-do-and-don-t-can-or-can-t-is-just-an-excuse/)

[M.F. Moonzajer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-f-moonzajer/)

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> [We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quintilian/we-excuse-our-sloth-under-the-pretext-of-difficulty/)

[Quintilian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quintilian/)

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> [Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/whatever-pretext-we-may-give-for-our-affections-often-it-is-only/)

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)

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> [We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-basil/we-must-always-be-on-guard-lest-under-the-pretext-of-keeping-one/)

[Saint Basil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-basil/)

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> [Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/words-are-a-pretext-it-is-the-inner-bond-that-draws-one-person-to/)

[Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/)

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> [Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-ortega-y-gasset/human-vitality-is-so-exuberant-that-in-the-sorriest-desert-it-still/)

[Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-ortega-y-gasset/)

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> [The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pare/the-real-danger-we-face-is-not-from-terrorism-but-what-is-being-done/)

[Michael Pare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pare/)

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> [Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-gauguin/beware-of-luxury-beware-of-acquiring-the-taste-and-need-for-it-under/)

[Paul Gauguin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-gauguin/)

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> [Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/hatred-is-the-vice-of-narrow-souls-they-feed-it-with-all-their/)

[Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/)

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> [And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/and-what-do-you-say-of-lovers-of-wine-they-are-glad-of-any-pretext-of/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau/every-man-having-been-born-free-and-master-of-himself-no-one-else-may/)

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau/)

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> [There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/there-is-nothing-an-addict-likes-more-or-that-serves-as-better/)

[Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/)

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> [It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/it-cannot-be-too-often-stressed-that-israel-had-no-credible-pretext/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-comfort/instead-of-preaching-the-good-news-that-sinners-can-be-made-righteous/)

[Ray Comfort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-comfort/)

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> [I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugo-grotius/i-saw-in-the-whole-christian-world-a-license-of-fighting-at-which/)

[Hugo Grotius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugo-grotius/)

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> [Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/under-the-specious-pretext-of-effecting-the-happiness-of-the-whole/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/then-also-pretexts-for-seizing-property-are-never-wanting-and-one-who/)

[Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/)

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> [We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-stewart/we-have-it-the-smoking-gun-the-evidence-the-potential-weapon-of-mass/)

[Jon Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-stewart/)

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> [Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diadochos-of-photiki/friendship-after-the-flesh-is-very-easily-destroyed-on-some-slight/)

[Diadochos of Photiki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diadochos-of-photiki/)

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> [The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-michael-ramsay/the-source-of-pyrrhonism-comes-from-failing-to-distinguish-between-a/)

[Andrew Michael Ramsay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-michael-ramsay/)

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> [However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/however-fiercely-opposed-one-may-be-to-the-present-order-an-old/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

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> [Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-castro-espin/let-s-not-use-the-term-democracy-as-a-play-on-words-which-is-what/)

[Alejandro Castro Espin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-castro-espin/)

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> [I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-braque/i-couldn-t-portray-a-women-in-all-her-natural-loveliness-i-haven-t/)

[Georges Braque](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-braque/)

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> [It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/it-is-one-of-my-faults-that-though-my-tongue-is-sometimes-prompt/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

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> [A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabelle-eberhardt/a-subject-to-which-few-intellectuals-ever-give-a-thought-is-the-right/)

[Isabelle Eberhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabelle-eberhardt/)

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> [Chuchill has renounced all British interests in Europe and those of his people who are not blind now realise that the pretext…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-joyce/chuchill-has-renounced-all-british-interests-in-europe-and-those-of/)

[William Joyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-joyce/)

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> [But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-brown-baldwin/but-sir-the-great-cause-of-complaint-now-is-the-slavery-question-and/)

[John Brown Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-brown-baldwin/)

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> [At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thelonious-monk/at-this-time-the-fashion-is-to-bring-something-to-jazz-that-i-reject/)

[Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thelonious-monk/)

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> [Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vyacheslav-molotov/germany-which-has-lately-united-80-million-germans-has-submitted/)

[Vyacheslav Molotov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vyacheslav-molotov/)

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> [ \[T\]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-g-hornberger/t-ake-the-war-on-drugs-the-average-american-says-the-war-on-drugs-has/)

[Jacob G. Hornberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-g-hornberger/)

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> [...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-pius-x/the-great-movement-of-apostasy-being-organized-in-every-country-for/)

[Pope Pius X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-pius-x/)

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> [If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-hamilton/if-we-set-out-with-a-scrupulous-regard-to-the-constitution-the/)

[Alexander Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-hamilton/)

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> [I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-do-not-wish-to-quarrel-with-any-man-or-nation-i-do-not-wish-to/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-handy/some-of-my-unhappiest-moments-have-been-in-organizations-somehow-it/)

[Charles Handy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-handy/)

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                        "text": "I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.",
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                        "text": "A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.",
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                        "text": "But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause of complaint which has been influential in any quarter, to bring about the crisis which is now upon us; if any State or any people have made the troubles growing out of this question, a pretext for agitation instead of a cause of honest complaint, Virginia can have no sympathy whatever, in any such feeling, in any such policy, in any such attempt. It is the slavery question. Is it not so?...",
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